WinCo Foods is opening its fifth area store on Thursday. The Boise-based company also confirmed Monday that it has another store under construction in Garland at 1122 W. Centerville Road. The Garland store will open later this year, said spokesman Michael Read.

The 83,000-square-foot supermarket in Lewisville is the 100th store for WinCo, which entered the North Texas market in February 2014. It started out with two stores in Fort Worth and McKinney. WinCo has since opened stores in Duncanville and North Richland Hills.

The Lewisville store is at 1288 W. Main Street where it kicked off a renovation of the Old Orchard Village East shopping center. A long vacant Wal-Mart was demolished to build the WinCo. The center’s parking lot and landscaping have been updated. Cencor Realty manages the center and Venture Commercial represented WinCo.

The new store opens at 9 a.m. on Thursday and will be open 24 hours a day. The grocery chain calls itself a “low-price leader” and promotes that it’s an employee-owned company, which it says helps it keep costs and prices down. The store has 150 employees.

WinCo doesn’t take credit cards – only cash, checks and debit cards – and customers bag their own groceries. It claims to beat most of Wal-Mart’s prices.

WinCo Foods is getting ready to open its Duncanville store on Thursday.

WinCo remodeled a former Wal-Mart store that’s been vacant for years at 800 S. Cockrell Hill Road. The shopping center has seen better days and maybe will benefit from the additional customer traffic.

The 89,500 square foot store features its “wall of values” at the entry which displays some of the store’s best prices. WinCo stores have a large bulk food area where shoppers can buy small amounts of more than 700 items. It has a large fresh produce sections and meat, deli, seafood and bakery departments. WinCo says it tries to be the price leader in every market and often displays competitors’ prices with its own.

The Idaho-based grocery retailer opened its first two stores in February in McKinney and Fort Worth.
The Duncanville store is its third in Texas and will employ 170 people, including 160 that WinCo said it hired locally. It’s also announced plans for stores in Lewisville and North Richland Hills.

The employee-owned company operates 95 stores and five distribution centers in Texas, Washington, Idaho, Nevada, California, Oregon, Arizona and Utah.

Old Orchard Village East was built in the 1970s and will be remodeled.

After landing a new supermarket tenant, the owners of the Old Orchard Village East shopping center in Lewisville are starting a major remodeling.

Cencor Realty Services and Weitzman Group said Friday that Idaho-based discount grocer WinCo Foods has decided to locate one of its new Dallas-area stores in the shopping center at the southeast corner of Old Orchard and Main Street.

As part of the deal, the 1970s retail strip that originally had a Kroger and Walmart stores will be redeveloped.

McKinney and Fort Worth are getting the first two WinCo supermarkets in North Texas.

Idaho-based WinCo Foods purchased 12 acres in McKinney from Collin County where the University Drive Courts Facility was recently demolished.

The store will open early next year on the southwest corner of Waddill St. and University.

WinCo said last year that it planned to expand into this market, believing its large stores and low prices will win shoppers over in this hyper-competitive and fragmented grocery market. WinCo stores are about 90,000 square feet or twice the size of a traditional supermarket.

WinCo believes that part of its secret sauce is being employee-owned.

The Boise-based chain of 87 stores had sales last year of $5.3 billion. Texas is WinCo’s 8th state.

The Fort Worth location is also 12 acres. It’s on the southwest corner of Sycamore School and Crowley roads, just west of Interstate 35W. Both stores are expected to open early next year.

“There will be other stores,” said WinCo vice president Michael Read. He declined to name other locations under consideration saying others are “in the pipeline, but not all will work out.”